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Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily |
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Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:45:55 +0800 |
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Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Yup, "annotation mechanism" is about right. Just to be clear, you think
>> it fits into the category of incubation-prior-to-core?
>
> I think so.
>
>> If anyone thinks that this mechanism warrants actual new Org syntax, I'd
>> be happy to work on implementing that.
>
> I also think a new syntax is needed. But, please, let's keep it as
> simple as possible.
We're just talking about annotations-plus-metadata here, right? Not
actual in-text TODOs?
>From what I can tell, rasmus seems to be proposing an in-text TODO,
while John's headed in the direction of replicating Track Changes
functionality. I've definitely wanted some sort of a track changes
equivalent in Org, but we'd want to be careful about this.
Assuming we're just talking about annotations on steriods, here are some
things I'd personally like to have:
1. Annotations attached to arbitrary text in the buffer. The buffer text
should be visible, the annotation data invisible (basically the way
links work right now).
2. Plain annotation: just a chunk of free-form paragraph text that is
attached to the buffer text.
3. Replacement text: an alternate version of the buffer text; this could
be the basis of track changes stuff.
4. Timestamps
5. Custom highlighting
6. Full element status: this would allow parsing of the various
properties, and more fully-featured export options.
7. "Author" metadata would probably be unnecessary with full access to
the export channels, but it might still be desirable.
8. Options-line switches to export with annotation, export without
annotation, and export using replacement text.
That's all I can think of, just trying to get the ball rolling. I don't
have any opinions about actual syntax, though something with curly
braces might be nice.
Eric
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, (continued)
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Rasmus, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Eric S Fraga, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, John Kitchin, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Eric S Fraga, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Eric S Fraga, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, John Kitchin, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Nicolas Goaziou, 2015/04/29
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily,
Eric Abrahamsen <=
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Rasmus, 2015/04/30
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Eric S Fraga, 2015/04/30
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, John Kitchin, 2015/04/30
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/04/28
- Re: [O] Marking/highlighting text temporarily, Eric S Fraga, 2015/04/25